system freeze

Hi all,I had a ssytem which did not responde to network request and when i checked the console the cursor was blinking with no respond from keyboard. so i went into service processor mode with control-b and got the GSP prompt. now what i did next was an rs command to reset and it came back with the console login prompt. what i want is find out what happened at time of freeze.

Re: system freeze

Hi ngth,

You are suppose to give TC from GSP prompt not RS if you want to analyse what went wrong.

There is a huge difference between RS and TC.

RS will just reset the system which forcefully reboot the system. Whereas TC will trigger Transfer of Control signal to the system which inturn take the system crash image and store it in filesystem. You can analyse the crash images to find what was running at that point of time and what went wrong.

Now you don't have much to analyse. However you can look into /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log , console logs, event logs

Re: system freeze

Thanks Avizen, but the /var/adm/crash was not there for this occurence meaning it did not crash per se. Checking the syslog it was showing anything before the reset. appeared to be overwritten due to going into GSP. how do i enable it such that its not overwritten by the GSP?